London day 1

We are back in London.It feels great, despite of some serious jetlag. We arrived friday morning at 7am and went straight to a hotel at the airport to sleep.

This morning we took the Heathrow Connect train to Paddington:

The guys found a new little friend while we were waiting for the train. Very cute.

Then from Paddington we got a cab to the apartment in bayswater:

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The apartment is amazing. It's a 2 story "flat", as they call it here. The livingroom has 6 of my favorite chair:

Andy is here too:

The upstairs is really nice:


The balcony:



It's almost noon. I have been awake since 1.30am. A bit of jetlag :-)
We are waiting for our tour manager to show up with the splitter, so we can pick up our gear at the storage unit. Our first show is tonight.
More pictures later. Very happy to be back in London.
xo
Victoria

My week in Hollywood..

I have been meaning to write a blog every day for the past week. I guess I will just write 1 blog about my entire week instead.
First, I went to the Thrust Drums photo shoot. If you still have not seen their drums, please check them out. They are amazing !
If you stop by the show room, you may even run into Mario, the mastermind behind the business:

You may also run into this little guy:
Toby - the man who builds the drums--

Then I moved to Hollywood (thank you Taylor and Heidi ), where I spent 4 days in the studio with indie producer The Fox, who we recorded with in the past. While on tour, we spoke on the phone and decided to do a weird EP together in just a few days. And weird it was, we had fun !
Here's the beautiful view outside the studio:

And the man with the noisy toys:

After moving to Hollywood I decided to go hiking every day. It is so pretty up there in the park.

I realized as I went up there, it had been 10 years since I had been there last. That's too long.
My next adventure was THE BEACH !!!

My friend Gitte from Denmark was visiting. So we spent a lot of time together. Now, my Danish is almost perfect again.
We walked from Santa Monica to Venice:

While we were down there, everybody found out about Michael Jackson. All of a sudden all the stores were playing his music and people were yelling his name everywhere. It was wild. And of course Hollywood Blvd was out of control with tourists by the time I came back home.



I remembered I used to go to the library when I first moved to Hollywood, so I decided to go back. I realized they have a bunch of great movies you can rent for free. So I finally got to see Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffany's. My favorite was Casablanca - for several reasons....

Saturday I went to see East of Eden at the cemetery. It was VERY cold.

Sunday we played at the Echoplex, it was an animal shelter benefit. So thanks to everybody who came out and donated money to the cute little animals.
Monday we recorded 7 songs for a podcast somewhere in the valley and later I went with a couple of friends to see Transformers. Bad choice !! DO NOT GO !! Fortunately I had borrowed the Chaplin collection from the library, so I had something good to watch before bed :-)
Now it's tuesday night and I have tomorrow to pack and get organized for the UK trip. We leave thursday morning.
So....I will talk to you from London. Good night and much love...Victoria

San Francisco party

First of all, meet Matty our new driver:


It's sunday morning and we are getting up. We are in San Francisco and the show at Slims was so much fun. After the show we partied at the club until we got kicked out, then went to a private party somewhere, with the guys from Glasvegas and the Von Iva girls. That was fun !!!






Anyways, we need to get out of the hotel in about 10 minutes to go have our guitar fixed and then drive to Oregon.
That means we can take turns sleeping in the van.
Here's David with earplugs. He hates the music on my iPod, so everytime I play it, he does this:

Here we are backstage at Slims before the show last night:

See you in Washington tomorrow !!!

A four-wheeled adventure

We ended up driving all the way to El Paso last night. Unfortunately we ended up at a shitty hotel and didn't get a lot of sleep. The good thing is, we were off today, so we slept all afternoon. Then went to the store to get some food. Once again finding healthy food was a challenge. They did have a "health and diet section", see picture ! And do notice what is in that section; cake and cookies and crackers..

There is nothing going on in El Paso. I have been bored all day. The most exciting thing today was my fortune cookie message:

Oh, and I found "Amadeus" in a store today. One of my favorite movies. So that's what I will be watching tonight. We are playing here in El Paso tomorrow night and then we go to Tucson. In Tucson we meet up with our old TM and driver Zuhair. He is flying out to Tucson to drive us home wednesday night after our show at Plush. We are doing a performance the next morning in LA for Yahoo. Should be fun. Cannot wait to be back home, although it will only be for 2 days. Then we go up the west coast for a few more shows. We will be back home again around the 13th - and 2 weeks off !!!!
I am making a schedule in my head, so far it is : spa treatment, lunch at mao's kitchen and a trip to Malibu.
xo
Victoria

Chillin' in Austin

Today we got up around 12.30pm. We just couldn't fall asleep last night. The phones kept ringing and we kept talking. But finally we went to bed. We all had crazy dreams, I believe David had dreams of the "artwork" in the greenroom:



When we woke up this "morning" we just wanted to have a great day. We met up with The Boxing Lesson at 2pm to pick up the rest of our gear at Emo's. There was still some blood on the sidewalk.


And some bullet holes. They said there were between 18-30 of those:


After getting the rest of our gear from the club, we went to Bouldin Creek for breakfast. They have amazing vegan food, and I also had an excellent spirulina drink.

After breakfast we drove back to the hotel to park the van and then walked around for a bit. This is at the hotel:

Here we are at a tattoo shop where they have pictures of us. A local artist painted us. That was fun to see:

After walking around, taking a nap and swimming at the hotel, we decided to go eat dinner at Mighty Cones.

And then it was time for Jaylinn and Paul to go home to their cute cute kitties:

Twitter game

What's up ya'll. We are in Texas and after being gone for 2 1/2 months we are getting slightly bored out here on the road. PLease entertain us by playing the Twittergame.....See more info below.
Also, our tour with Von Iva kicked off a couple of nights ago and we are having a blast.
See you aloang the way.

May 25 FIREBIRD St. Louis, Missouri
May 27 ROCK BOTTOM San Antonio, Texas
May 28 EMO’S Austin, Texas
May 30 SUE ELLEN’S VIXEN LOUNGE Dallas, Texas
Jun 2 BOMBARDIERS El Paso, Texas
Jun 3 PLUSH Tucson, Arizona
Jun 5 THE ROXY THEATRE West Hollywood, California
Jun 6 SLIMS San Francisco, California
Jun 8 THE RED ROOM Kennewick, Washington
Jun 9 DOUG FIR LOUNGE Portland, Oregon
Jun 10 STUDIO SEVEN Seattle, Washington

As for the foolin’ around with us on Twitter... Here’s how it goes... Ask us “A or B” questions like “guitars or synths?” “east coast or west coast?”, but, ya know, get creative. Post these to Twitter with “@voniva @gliss” so that both bands on tour receive them, and then both bands will reply publicly with their responses. We’ll probably ask you guys some questions, too. So what’s the point? Fun, mostly! Driving from city to city can get boring, keep us entertained. But we’re also going to keep it interesting by giving away tickets and t-shirts to our favorite playas. See you out there...
www.twitter.com/gliss

Still out here...

It is thursday night and I am in bed in Virginia listening to some amazing music on Little Radio - Thanks to Mr. Shovel ;-)
I realized it's been a few days since I have blogged, so ..what better time than the present.
We are on our own now for about a week or so. The Takeover UK went home. We are doing a few shows around the country this week before meeting up with Von Iva in Saint Louis.

Today we went to check out the huge battleship here in Norfolk..It is crazy big:


Last night we played with Ex-Monkeys, if you like The Prodigy, you might like these guys. It was the loudest show I have been to in awhile:


And a few party pics from our last night with TTUK: